The Importance Of Community In Video Games

The idea of sense of community as a social concept revolves around people getting “a feeling of belonging and being important to each other” (Anderson and Milligan 21), whenever they behaved they have made an effect in their community. The uplifting feeling creates a connection between members in their community, thus leads to future collaborations to improve the community. Video games accurately present this social concept by establishing an audience centered on a specific video game franchise. This connection is presented by how video games create communities, players helping out newcomers get familiar with their community’s video game, and how people united to save a major tournament. For decades, video games have always been an experience solely for the gamer playing his personal copy of the video game, aside when multiple people join up for round of multiplayer. The story of a video gamThe can be just enough to spark a community, by players meeting other players who have gone through the same experience. These individuals connect with each other and start to get really close. Whenever a new player is …show more content…
A video game can bring strangers, who have enjoy the contents of the game, together and start sharing their experiences. In the fighting game genre, experienced players receive their feelings of importance by providing support for newer players, in which leads to further growth for this developing community. A sense of trust is created within the community, as seen during the events of APEX 2015 when the Smash Bros. community tirelessly worked together to prevent the cancellation of the tournament. Overall, sense of community creates collaborations within a community and the efforts made lead to closer relationships with each